I know that the domestic needs of this Nation have become the poor stepchild of the budget, and I know that if we continue down that path we risk becoming a second-rate America with declining living standards, rusting factories, kids who cannot add, kids who cannot say in what century even, let alone what year, the Civil War began, and an economy beholden to the technological expertise of citizens of foreign lands.
Speaking on domestic discretionary spending under the budget agreement.
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